>they're called oliphauntsTolkien really halfarsed this
>>24687665Correct, everyone is a simpering idiot except me.
>>24687405po tard do. boil em mash em stick em in a stew
>>24687427techniques died off and remerged at a latter date.
>>24687427Middle earth is third age Brazil
>You are the lord of the rings, FrodoTitle in the first page. Bravo
Hegel thread. I know a few of you niggers are reading the Phenomenology, where are you in the book and what do you think?
>>24686602Yes, Hegel is very overrated. Fichte is very underrated. But in general idealism is a dead end because man is not first, or, the essence of man is to know that he is not first.
This passage slays dogmatists. Hegel was such a rascal.Brain-fibres and the like, looked at as forms of the being of mind, are already an imagined, a merely hypothetical actuality of mind — not its presented reality, not its felt, seen, in short not its true reality. If they are present to us, if they are seen, they are lifeless objects, and then no longer pass for the being of mind. But its objectivity proper must take an immediate, a sensuous form, so that in this objectivity qua lifeless — for the bone is lifeless so far as the lifeless is found in the living being itself — mind is established as actual.The principle involved in this idea is that reason claims to be all thinghood, even thinghood of a purely objective kind. It is this, however, in conceptu: or, only this notion is the truth of reason; and the purer the notion itself is, the more silly an idea does it become, if its content does not take the shape of a notion (Begriff) but of a mere presentation or idea (Vorstellung)-if the self-superseding judgment is not taken with the consciousness of this its infinity, but is taken as a stable and permanent proposition, the subject and predicate of which hold good each on its own account, self fixed as self, thing as thing, while one has to be the other all the same.Reason, essentially the notion, is immediately parted asunder into itself and its opposite, an opposition which just for that reason is immediately again superseded. But if it presents itself in this way as both itself and its opposite, and if it is held fast in the entirely isolated moment of this disintegration, reason is apprehended in an irrational form; and the purer the moments of this opposition are, the more glaring is the appearance of this content, which is either alone for consciousness, or alone expressed ingenuously by consciousness.The “depth” which mind brings out from within, but carries no further than to make it a presentation (Vorstellung), and let it remain at this level — and the “ignorance” on the part of this consciousness as to what it really says, are the same kind of connexion of higher and lower which, in the case of the living being, nature naïvely expresses when it combines the organ of its highest fulfilment, the organ of generation, with the organ of urination. The infinite judgment qua infinite would be the fulfilment of life that comprehends itself, while the consciousness of the infinite judgment that remains at the level of presentation corresponds to urination.
>>24686667He is saying that materialist philosophy is like pissing and idealism is the other one.
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Hopefully it’ll be slow at work and I can finish my second reading of PoS. Then I’ll be an absolute knower, in layman’s terms, a mage. I swear he wrote the last section dense af to discourage people from skipping to the end.
Can the term "exists" even be meaningfully applied to God? Since "existence" is a category within the universe, does saying "God exists" place God within creation rather than as the ground of all being?
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if god created everything that exists, who created everything that doesnt exist
>>24687773Time to read Buddhism mate.
>>24687773>Can the term "exists" even be meaningfully applied to God? Yes. Existence is not contingent on God
>>24687773Read the paper "Into the Dark" by Eric Perl. He addresses exactly this with the apophaticism of Plotinus, Proclus and Aquinas
meereenese throne editionASOIAF wiki: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Main_PageBlog: https://georgerrmartin.com/notablog/Old blog: https://grrm.livejournal.com/So Spake Martin (interviews): https://westeros.org/citadel/ssm/Book search: https://asearchoficeandfire.com/SSM search: https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=006888510641072775866:vm4n1jrzsdyGeneral search: http://searcherr.work/TWOW samples: https://archive.org/details/411440566-the-winds-of-winter-released-chaptersold: >>24667075
>>24687918>"When King's Landing fell, Ser Jaime slew your king with a golden sword, and I wondered where you were.">"Far away," Ser Gerold said, "or Aerys would yet sit the Iron Throne, and our false brother would burn in seven hells."What did he mean by this?
So Rhaegar thought he was birthing THE prophecy baby when he absconded with Lyanna right? Cause if he just needed a third kid he could’ve easily chosen some minor noble, or even a fucking whore. What was his thought process?
>>2468793714yo horsegirl pussy
>>24687929For once, it is a dream. It is quite unlikely that the real exchange was as poetic as we see it. Secondly, being Rhaegar loyalist does not mean overthrowing Aerys. Rhaegar coup seems to be pure Aerys paranoia, in actuality Rhaegar and his dudes were doing his thing while patiently waiting for Aerys to die in his sleep and just politely recognizing his legitimate authority until then.
>>24687943This doesn't sound like they were waiting for Aerys to die in his sleep.>Rhaegar had put his hand on Jaime's shoulder. "When this battle's done I mean to call a council. Changes will be made. I meant to do it long ago, but . . . well, it does no good to speak of roads not taken. We shall talk when I return."
Why do men find female authors so trite and boring? I've known well-read dudes who don't read women as a rule just because they feel like they're being subtly nagged or something.
>>24677272I've only read two novels written by women since I've taken reading as a hobby about a year ago, Frankenstien and Jane Eyre. Frankenstien didn't give that vibe at all, probably because it's from a man's perspective, but with Jane Eyere, while I did enjoy it, it definitley felt a bit like that especially towards the end when she has to choose between St. John and Rochester. Kinda gave me the ick cause it read so female fanfic with a side of moralizing.
>>24682623Yeah, I don't see a woman ever coming up with something like Donne's "A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning" or anything by D. H. Lawrence.
>>24687761Though if I wanted to be fair, I always felt like that in literature about love written by men, the woman in question almost never matters as a person but rather as an avatar of femininity, as if it was the thing that the woman embodied to them that these men truly loved and less that one woman specifically, who were quite indistinguishable and interchangeable when discussed at all. I suspect women love much the same way, however. Maybe there is truly only one Man and one Woman that we love regardless of whoever happens to be their representative at a certain time and place.
Mfw litfags shilling Shelley despite ~90% of it having been written by Percy
>>24687887That's a nice cope, but I don't think you're going to convince anyone. You can't even convince yourself.
I really like stories set small town of America. The ones that I know are the Green Town trilogy of Ray Bradbury (Something Wicked This Way Comes, Dandelion Wine, and Farewell Summer). There is also Riverdale from the Archie comics. Gravity Falls, Oregon from the cartoon Gravity Falls. It seems small town settings are quite good for all kind of genres from comedies, adventures, mystery, thriller, romance, etc. Themes of unchangingness versus change, innocence versus growing up, home vs the world, all seem to prop up in these kind of stories which I really enjoy.And I want to read more books that utilize this setting. So any recommendations, /lit/?
>>24685081sinclair lewis - main street
>>24685274Yeah, Updike is the undisputed kang of small town America.
>>24685081Faulkner is required for the Yoknapatawpha County literary universe, but it is also distinctly southern, not generic american small town.
>>24686975no, that's not it either
>>24685274>>24687535What's Updike?
$76.240 Per Month EditionStubbed >>24682944>What is Web Novel General?A general for readers and authors involved or interested in the growing phenomenon of 'web novels', serialized English fiction posted to websites such as: Royal Road, Webnovel, Scribblehub, Wattpad, Archive of Our Own, Spacebattles, HFY, various personal author websites, and more>Why read web novels?Not for prose or tight editing or deep themes, frankly. As a whole, web novels are infamous for content sprawl and pacing issues. If you enjoy having millions of words to sink your teeth into to get to know the world and characters, though, you may be interested. Keeping up with other readers on a weekly basis to discuss the story's events unfolding is another perk, in the same way discussing an ongoing TV show might be.>Why write web novels?Ease of access & potential for Patreon earnings. Many successful authors gain an audience on their website of choice and funnel their readers into a Patreon. See graphtreon.com/top-patreon-creators/writing for an idea of what some are earning.Also, once an author has earned a fanbase, transitioning into an Amazon self-publishing career is several orders of magnitude easier than starting 'dry'.>Advice for Noobs!Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>24687596Shalom rabbi
>>24687587I'm the original complainer. My standards aren't that high. I just think that certain tropes, like meeting gods at the start of the story, make the rest of the story feel like there are no stakes. If you're going to want a character to meet a god, but keep the stakes then it has to be something like in Cultist of Cerebron. The MC meets a god (eventually), but he's clearly deferential. The god doesn't explain everything and the MC feels like he's in danger just by interacting with the god.>He Who Fights MonstersAnother example that works well. MC got isekai'd and there was no exposition dump on how it happened. MC had to figure it out himself. >Death MarchThe anime was garbage though.>Max lvl archmage >Jackal Among Snakes>Arcane Emperor>Descend>Black Iron's Glory>Destroyermen>>24687596I actually watched that video a few days ago. I thought it was interesting because later in the video he talks about how you could make religion appear more interesting in a story. I don't find that particularly important, but maybe someone does.
>>24687101>There's fussing over the rules and then there's underage characters.I wish we were now like Japan and didn't get our knickers in a bunch over this. It's fictional written content.
>No, you don't understand, I MUST sexualized underaged girls!
teenagers who are under the age of consent fuck. Highschoolers younger than 17 fuck. Kids be fuckin. There are real kids in the real world having sex right now. What the fuck is wrong with writing a character of a similar age wanting to fuck? Why does it matter. Fuck off.
how do you guys feel about this one
i'm a fan. had me in stitches. i enjoyed this audiobook.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4Q3UsA3F-k
Had it sitting on my shelf for years but always had something more interesting to read first
Perhaps I didn't get far enough into it but it gets so repetitive for me. I get it's the catch-22 but every page is filled with catch-22s that it gets tiresome to read for me. I've tried reading it three times and I can still never get past the first ~150 pages.
>>24686973Fun desu.
>>24686973very funny book written by a jew.
>>24687061Bukowski's Post Office is not believable. He only takes 6 months of unauthorised sick leave off due to alcoholism and does not drink nearly enough.1/10: not realistic, insufficient alcoholism._t. postal delivery officer.
The Ginger Man.
My stepdad's diary desu. It's not really a diary. It's a collection of .txt files in a folder marked "secret" on his 2004 desktop PC. He caught me looking once and he beat my ass with a fire poker. Just about shook my bones like a christmas tree. Then he went into my sisters room and
>>24687038Steppenwolf
IJ
I keep seeing people talk about Postmodernism in relation to literary analysis, especially Pynchon, but I don't get it. Is it just a pretentious way of saying "words can mean anything you want"? It seems like a total meme. Help a brainlet out.
literally just means the story doesn't follow the conventional style, it has almost nothing to do with the philosophical "post-modernism". Oedipa doesn't find out if the conspiracy is actually real vs a more traditional story where it all gets tied up with a bow and she solves the case
>>24687795Bateman. Batman isn't nearly psychotic enough.
>>24686201Or are you frustratingly expressing your latent homosexuality?
>>24687823Which stems from what Lyotard called the loss of faith in grand narratives. Life doesn't have all the answers, and there isn't necessarily one correct way to act or observe or live, so this reflects in the writing as questioning the premises of storytelling and the moral frameworks that were in place still in modernist writing.
>>24686170Fiction that serves primarily as commentary
Who was the most gifted sister?
>>24686617Emily, obviously. Her single work overshadows both of her sisters' entire careers.
>>24686617idk man, but according to my mum Anne Bronte is the worst
>be me>struggle to read consistently>spend ~8 hours a day staring at screens in a bright-lit room>too tired to read at home>ordered a couple of books from Amazon recently>turns out one of them was the braille version>start learning braille to get an idea how difficult it is>it's actually pretty simple>slowly read the book in braille>amazing experience>sitting in a very dimly lit room with my eyes closed reading a story with my fingertips>feelsgoodman
>>24686645I wouldn't because i'm high on caffeine 24/7
>>24683713the rare based frogposter. proud of you, anon.
The absolute state of this board. The fact any of you are even pretending to believe a massive faggot like OP is just tragic.
>>24687027I kneel
>>24683713Where do you get your braille books from?
I discovered him in late 2023, read The Poetics of Space and loved it, read The Flame of the Candle earlier this year and loved that too. He has a book or two for every element I plan on going through. Definitely my favorite phenomenologist to read.
I love Bachelard but I've only read The Poetics of Space and The Psychoanalysis of Fire. I've heard that his philosophy of science is very interesting but I've never properly looked into it. He was my introduction to a lot of poetry as a teen.
>>24686885Bachelard is awesome, man. His stuff about the imagination is tremendous. Poétique de la rêverie is well worth reading. And if you can understand french, do yourself a favor and listen to the small yet precious clips of his voice that are available. He's so jovial, and his way of speaking explains the how and the why of his philosophy better than secondary literature ever could.
Yep, this humble bearded guy from the east region of France is one of my favorite.I have read a lot of his book of imagination and it is really pleasant.
What did I just read?Are all 20th century novels this meandering and nonsensical?
>>24685083The end is worth the slog that precedes it. I can't say the same for Demian. Currently reading narcissus and goldmund
>>24685083You are on the wrong board, fren.
>>24685083Ghastly>>24685570>empowered pro editionthat sounds really gay
Why were so many 20th century authors obsessed with drugs and whores? I understand It's supposed to be a 'counter culture' since religion and tradition had been grinded to dust at that point. But is that really what you do with your new bought freedom? Oh and of course vague eastern mysticism, we can't forget that.
>>24686305all metaphorical wolves are gay. anyway, the wolf now does a kickflip as well as the usual stepping.
Has anyone read this novel? Thoughts?
